SAM 27000 was the second of two Boeing VC-137C United States Air Force aircraft that were specifically configured and maintained for the use of the president of the United States. It used the call sign Air Force One when the president was on board, and at other times it used the call sign SAM 27000, with SAM indicating 'Special Air Mission.' The VC-137C serial number 72-7000 was a customized version of the Boeing 707 which entered service during the Nixon administration in 1972. It served all US presidents until George W. Bush and was retired in 2001. It is now on display at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
VC-137C SAM 27000
The Fords in the President's forward cabin on SAM 27000
Ronald and Nancy Reagan wave from Air Force One (SAM 27000) as they prepare to descend the stairs upon the plane's landing in Moscow, Russia SFSR, 1988
Ronald Reagan works aboard SAM 27000 in 1986
Air Force One is the official air traffic control designated call sign for a United States Air Force aircraft carrying the president of the United States. In common parlance, the term is used to denote U.S. Air Force aircraft modified and used to transport the president and a metonym for the primary presidential aircraft, VC-25, although it can be used to refer to any Air Force aircraft the president travels on.
SAM 29000, one of two VC-25As used as Air Force One, approaching Dayton International Airport in October 2012
Theodore Roosevelt and pilot Arch Hoxsey prior to their flight from St. Louis in October 1910
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Douglas C-54 Skymaster aircraft, nicknamed the Sacred Cow
The VC-118 Independence used primarily by President Harry S. Truman